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The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ…The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ…
The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ hath endowed her considered in some contemplations upon part of the 12. chapter of the Hebrews : together with certain other meditations and discourses upon other portions of Holy Scriptures, the titles whereof immediately precede the book : being the sum of diverse sermons preached in S. Gregory's London / by Thomas Adams ...The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ hath endowed her considered in some contemplations vpon part of the 12. chapter of the Hebrewes : together with certain other meditations and discourses vpon other portions of Holy Scriptures, the titles wherof immediately precede the booke : being the summe of diuerse sermons preached in S. Gregories London / by Thomas Adams ...
London: printed by G.P. for John Grismand, 1619London: printed by G.P. for Iohn Grismand, 1619
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1. The Citation: there is a summons sent out to make all appear before Christs Tribunal. This citing is done by the voice of Christ. pAll that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth. The power of this voice is unspeakable: to empty earth, sea, air, heaven, and hell: and presently to fill earth, air, heaven and hell. To empty all upon his summons, and to fill all upon his Sentence. Therefore it is compared to a Trumpet, the loudest of all musical instruments. qThe Trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised. Uerè vox tub• terribilis, cui omnia obediunt elementa. Petras scindit, Inferos aperit, portas aereas frangit, vinculae mortis dirumpit, et de profund• abyssi animas liberatis corporibus assignat. A terrible voice, that shall shake the world, rend the rocks, break the mountains, dissolve the bonds of death, burst down the gates of hell, and unite all spirits to their own bodies. There shall be no concealing, no keeping back from this voice. Now Christ calls; rCome unto me all that labour: ⟨p. 108⟩syet you will not come unto me that you might have life. Then he shall call, Come you that must labour in torments, and be laden for ever; then they must come to receive the doom of death. Now tawake thou that sleepest, & Christ shall give thee light: but they will not rise. At that day awake thou wicked that art dead, and Christ shall send thee to darkness: and then they must rise. This is that general day, that shall congregate all: they shall come from the four winds, and corners of the world, to make an universal appearance. But if this be the voice of Christ, how is it then said, the Archangel shall sound the Trumpet of collection? uHe shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet, and they shall gather all together.